We don´t have many people that we´re teaching here, but those that are listening to us have lots of potential and we´re beginning to see new possibilities in others. Our investigator Krystina, the 15 year old girl from Ecuador, got baptized on Sunday! The missionaries have been teaching her from before I got here, and she´s been preparing herself for this day and everything turned out fine. Although there had to, like always, be some opposition with the baptismal service. For example, this font was one that we had to actually set up, like a portable one, and that took a little bit. Then on Sunday morning when we were filling it, the hose that slowly filled it broke and water went spraying everywhere!! My companion grabbed it to kink the hose, even though it kind of burned him, and we stopped it. Then, we had to get cold water in the font because it was just filled with burning hot water haha. Baptismal days are always quite stressful, but I´d deal with that stress any day so that they can take that step.
The actual baptismal service went really well, wasn´t too long, was very spiritual, and her family all came and seemed to have really like it! They haven´t really been ´receiving the lessons´, but I think we definitely will see some progression in these coming days.
This week we´ve been trying to find new people, and we´ve been doing that a lot. There are days when we walk a ton, and I get back home and am really tired. One night, I think it was Thursday or Friday, Elder Jones and I got back home and went to go pray to start the nightly planning session. It sounds weird, but it felt so good to kneel on the ground and we stayed there for a good 40 minutes talking haha.
It´s so easy to talk to him, we´re always having great conversations and stories. We stayed up for forever one night too just talking about different things. I love being companions with him, it´s nice to have that great friendship in missionary work here.
We´ve been making plans to visit some castles around this area, the province that Toledo is in is called Castilla la Mancha. It was named that partly because of the many castles dotting the countryside. I feel like I´m living a dream sometimes!
Went on a day hike today as well, found a really cool view of the old city from a big hillside on the other side of the river. It was nice just to walk and be on a little trail. Are we still going to do the Wind River hike this summer?
Love you all a lot, thanks for your great examples and support. I´m so lucky to have you all.
Love Elder Franson
I've got a tan line going already.
My new companion and me.
The font.
The baptism!
City of Toledo.
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